Los ecos de las violencias silenciadas: anotaciones decoloniales para una lectura de las violencias de género en universidades públicas

Abstract

In the last thirty years, violence in Mexico has intensified both in its manifestations and as a normalized experience. In this sense it is considered a sociological phenomenon present in daily life and in all representative human spaces: family, work, and educational institutions, of course. From a decolonial gender perspective, from two experiences, we want to make visible the kinds of violence lived in academic contexts and inside the university, to debate about: first, the role of universities as producers and reproducers of gender inequality in power relations (gender coloniality); and second, universities as a space in which questions about violence within begin to emerge and to weave relationships based on sorority, solidarity, resistance and resilience of women in day to day life. That is to say, a space of counter-resistance, counter-hegemony and decolonial inflection on what is naturalized and assumed; in this case, gender violence inside institutionalized spaces where colonialism, heteropatriarchy and capitalism of know-how predominate.